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devoted to economics or foreign policy, iraq and iran, what ever it should be. at cbs we made a deal about never giving you the questions or categories, because you are supposed to keep that distance. >> do you feel any sense of discomfort at having to participate in what you did this time. >> this is the first time i have that this way and this was new, and basically -- janet called me and said, this time we want to divide this up into six categories, and i said, fine. you did not have to say in what order were anything but i think you really don't need to in today's sophisticated world. >> but you did. and this hadn't happened before so why was the change. >> with the commission said to me was that they were keen on two things. and the commission is running this. the three of us and candy are not rolling this. >> by your jim lehrer. >> -- you are jim lehrer. >> this is how they ask and here is how the imitation goes to the debate. and if under these rules, would you do this certain fang -- i found out what they propose and made the decision, i would do that an
devoted to economics or foreign policy, iraq and iran, what ever it should be. at cbs we made a deal about never giving you the questions or categories, because you are supposed to keep that distance. >> do you feel any sense of discomfort at having to participate in what you did this time. >> this is the first time i have that this way and this was new, and basically -- janet called me and said, this time we want to divide this up into six categories, and i said, fine. you did not...
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now if you look at foreign policy, i think our foreign policy is absolutely rudderless. my sense is that we absolutely don't have a strategic sense of what we're doing. melissa: okay. >> and egypt is an example. syria too. melissa: so before we run out of time, is thisarticular crisis more serious than those ones that i just mention that seemed very serious at the tme and like they could totally derail markets and economy? i understand they hav been a drag but they were painted as, th could blow up these things, they did not. is this particular debt ceiling, is it more serious than all of the things i mentioned? charles, go first. paul next. >> it is more serious if they fail to actlly reach an agreement that might lead to debt non-payment. we're still in the middle of it. if greece had actually defaulted or somebody pulled out of the euro that would have been seris too. right now that doesn't look like that will happen. we don't know about washingto melissa: more serious or same amount, or less? >> more serious but there's a much smaller chance of it happening, a deflt.
now if you look at foreign policy, i think our foreign policy is absolutely rudderless. my sense is that we absolutely don't have a strategic sense of what we're doing. melissa: okay. >> and egypt is an example. syria too. melissa: so before we run out of time, is thisarticular crisis more serious than those ones that i just mention that seemed very serious at the tme and like they could totally derail markets and economy? i understand they hav been a drag but they were painted as, th...
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the president is the foreign policy captain, and has to steer the vessel. and what president bush is saying is you can't withdraw from the world, it's too dangerous applies and too important. martha: and it makes me just think of syria, obviously, and the decision that president obama faces right now. >> reporter: no easy decisions there. martha: indeed there are not. in his talk with the former president, a lot came up about jeb bush as well, and you had something to say about this over the weekend, we'll let you revisit that moment of humism, here we go. >> reporter: i think in who terms much the public's estimation that cycles are accelerated these days, and the country may now indeed be ready for another bush, and if you think about jeb bush, he doesn't particularly look like either of his -- either his father or his brother. he's a different breed of cat, outwardly at least. martha: why do you think the country may be ready for another bush as you say there? h-frpblgts i don't really think that, i just said that on sunday because i thought it might get
the president is the foreign policy captain, and has to steer the vessel. and what president bush is saying is you can't withdraw from the world, it's too dangerous applies and too important. martha: and it makes me just think of syria, obviously, and the decision that president obama faces right now. >> reporter: no easy decisions there. martha: indeed there are not. in his talk with the former president, a lot came up about jeb bush as well, and you had something to say about this over...
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i don't think anyone looking at this administration's foreign policy shop today, just the foreign policy for a moment would say these are the best people for the times that we are in now, and for the chal -- challenges we are in now. we have gone from shuttle diplomacy to kissinger diplomacy with kerry. >> i disagree with you there. i think secretary of state hagel looks be fud delled. he looks like how can i get back to anybody neb? how can i get back to nebraska? which way is that. you take him out of the equation. kerry is the guy saying to president obama and i don't believe barack obama is listening to kerry, listen, you better be a tough guy. you better stop with the tentative back and forth and i didn't do the red line and i did do the red line and i will do the limbo under the bar. you better stop and you better be a tougher guy. i think that's what kerry is trying to get across. it is not working. >> bill, i think again as someone who studied russia and who has lived there and been there many times and speaks the language, i don't sense that these people really get the russian p
i don't think anyone looking at this administration's foreign policy shop today, just the foreign policy for a moment would say these are the best people for the times that we are in now, and for the chal -- challenges we are in now. we have gone from shuttle diplomacy to kissinger diplomacy with kerry. >> i disagree with you there. i think secretary of state hagel looks be fud delled. he looks like how can i get back to anybody neb? how can i get back to nebraska? which way is that. you...
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our foreign-policy expert will take on the issue of why mr. mohammed morsi it wants this despite the objections and other elements of the governing coalition. this is where things stand in egypt. the interim government after the military removal of mohammed morsi and against the crackdown on muslim brotherhood demonstrators today and it laid deadly violent fashion. military police are declaring supporters from demonstrators in cairo that have been virtually nonstop since his removal from office on july 3. bulldozers and tanks and helicopters and soldiers and over 200 civilians, government reporting that at least 49 police have been killed by a mohammed morsi supporters that have stormed this around cairo. entire neighborhoods falling into battle lines around neighbors on opposite sides of the political confrontation. egypt's interim president declaring a month-long state of emergency along with a curfew for cairo and the surrounding provinces. ordering the military and police to restore law and order and to protect state facilities. the vice p
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the president has passed american foreign policy to congress. i think everybody around the world is going to calibrate the way in which they read american reaction to a host of events. >> and i think we can agree, something big has happened. thank you for the insight and analysis. our powerhouse roundtable is next. we analyze the political fallout, the president's challenge to congress, how will it play with an american public tired of war? nascar is about excitement. but tracking all the action and hearing everything from our marketing partners, the media and millions of fans on social media can be a challenge. that's why we partnered with hp to build the new nascar fan and media engagement center. hp's technology helps us turn millions of tweets, posts and stories into real-time business insights that help nascar win with our fans. help the gulf when we made recover and learn the gulf, bp from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge techn
the president has passed american foreign policy to congress. i think everybody around the world is going to calibrate the way in which they read american reaction to a host of events. >> and i think we can agree, something big has happened. thank you for the insight and analysis. our powerhouse roundtable is next. we analyze the political fallout, the president's challenge to congress, how will it play with an american public tired of war? nascar is about excitement. but tracking all the...
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foreign policy and national security strategy requires a rethinking. do we have the moral authority to exercise our power in the world given this long trail of injustices and genocide and war crimes that we have committed. my question, martha, is the republicans generally want to give the president his prerogative in terms of his nominees and choices. i certainly understand that. but there are certain battles that should be picked. i think she's one of the most dangerous appointments this president has made. that's saying a lot. in this case, the republicans actually should drive a stake into the ground and oppose her nomination, because if she's at the u.n., i wonder who will be fighting for america's interests there. >> you know, it's interesting. when you go through her takes on different foreign policy over the past couple of years, for one thing the intervention in libya, she really -- her statements mirror very closely what president obama has done. the more i learn about her, the more it seems that she has been a very strong voice in this presid
foreign policy and national security strategy requires a rethinking. do we have the moral authority to exercise our power in the world given this long trail of injustices and genocide and war crimes that we have committed. my question, martha, is the republicans generally want to give the president his prerogative in terms of his nominees and choices. i certainly understand that. but there are certain battles that should be picked. i think she's one of the most dangerous appointments this...
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newt gingrich had been very supportive of neoconservative foreign policy principles and policies but recently said that the iraq war and other failures in foreign policy behoove the republicans to ask hard questions like those posed by senator paul. you see this in the lead up to the presidential race in 2016, a real determination by some in the republican party to try to take the party back. >> you mentioned vice president biden seems solidly behind a strike on syria. let's listen to what he said on tuesday. >> the president believes and i believe that those who use chemical weapons against defenseless men, women and children should and must be held accountable. >> consulting congress does not seem to be on the top of his agenda now. back when he was running for vice president in 2007, he had something very different to say when president bush was talking about possibly attacking iran because of its nuclear weapons program. >> if he takes us to war in iran without congressional approval, i will make it my business to impeach him. [ cheers and applause ] >> that's a fact. >> michael,
newt gingrich had been very supportive of neoconservative foreign policy principles and policies but recently said that the iraq war and other failures in foreign policy behoove the republicans to ask hard questions like those posed by senator paul. you see this in the lead up to the presidential race in 2016, a real determination by some in the republican party to try to take the party back. >> you mentioned vice president biden seems solidly behind a strike on syria. let's listen to...
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there was a lot of shock in the foreign policy feeding that this mystery tweeter turned out to be him. inside administration there's no sympathy for the man they felt betrayed their confidence and taunted them. he referred to himself as batman and taunted people to try to discover who he was. they finally did and severe price paid. >> his wife is described as a well respected professional staffer on the republican side of the senate foreign relations committee. any comment from his wife? >> no, we haven't heard from her. there's no evidence that she was involved in this illicit activity. there's no evidence that even she was aware of it. but it does have implications for her because some of the stuff jofi joseph was tweeting was about the senate foreign relations committee and the staff she worked on. i don't think anyone has found anything to suggest that carolyn was involved in this. unfortunately, she's an unwitting victim of her husband's unfortunate actions. >> you got everyone talking with the exclusive report there. quite a story. thank you. >> thank you. >> and our first read
there was a lot of shock in the foreign policy feeding that this mystery tweeter turned out to be him. inside administration there's no sympathy for the man they felt betrayed their confidence and taunted them. he referred to himself as batman and taunted people to try to discover who he was. they finally did and severe price paid. >> his wife is described as a well respected professional staffer on the republican side of the senate foreign relations committee. any comment from his wife?...
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coherent foreign policy there. we'll enter a complicated next phase. if the u.s. starts diplomatic negotiations through russia on talking with assad, there is an a questionence that assad will remain in power. i don't know what the administration wants. do they want to get rid of assad or keep a assumpted will it be signing up to the chemical ware fare convention, you have rebel groups that are fuelled by the west over the last year who are not going to put their weapons down and say we are happy, too. >> it is hard to look at theuation on the ground with egypt as a back grouvenltd we had mu barak must going by the president. and people screamed that in the streets of cairo. you had the pers kougz of christians and rise of muslim brotherhood. i don't know that the administration has an answer to the question of syria do they or not want assad to go? how dow so the threats on the ground in syria >> we have mixed messages on that. when the tide looked like was turning against assad the president said he had to go. we
coherent foreign policy there. we'll enter a complicated next phase. if the u.s. starts diplomatic negotiations through russia on talking with assad, there is an a questionence that assad will remain in power. i don't know what the administration wants. do they want to get rid of assad or keep a assumpted will it be signing up to the chemical ware fare convention, you have rebel groups that are fuelled by the west over the last year who are not going to put their weapons down and say we are...
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. >>> let's turn to foreign policy. senator johnson, as we discussed with senator paul, the president named a new national security adviser this week, susan rice, the former u.n. ambassador that infamously went out on the sunday talk shows. what do you think of that? i am going to ask the same question i asked senator paul. what do you think of the nominations of victor nulan as assess tant secretary of state and samantha power as ambassador? will you he's them to try to get some answers on benghazi. >> it is not surprising that president obama appointed secretary rice but it is disappointing that he chose at this moment when, his administration is going through a crisis of credibility. the reason this nsa thing has blown up, the american people have lost their faith in president obama and his administration. i am not the only one saying that. "the new york times" is saying, this administration has lost all credibility. susan rice was at the person at the center of misleading america on benghazi. it is incredibly disapp
. >>> let's turn to foreign policy. senator johnson, as we discussed with senator paul, the president named a new national security adviser this week, susan rice, the former u.n. ambassador that infamously went out on the sunday talk shows. what do you think of that? i am going to ask the same question i asked senator paul. what do you think of the nominations of victor nulan as assess tant secretary of state and samantha power as ambassador? will you he's them to try to get some...
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. >> absolutely the conventional wisdom from political operatives no one cares about foreign defense policy, it's remote from their lives and people don't vote on those issues any more as they did during the wold car but for hillary clinton, her tenure as secretary of state is the singlemost important qualification she has to be president, so it's not a matter of opposition research here. she's putting her own record as secretary on the line. i think it's a record of failure as i think the entire obama administration has been a failed presidency in the national security area, and it makes every aspect of her tenure at secretary fair game specifically benghazi. >> some felt the secretary of state job put her out of washington, removed her from the administration and put her on the world stage and set her up in a positive way as a stateperson and somebody who had experience with foreign affairs so you think it is a double edged sword for them in the end. >> people will ask what exactly did she accomplish as a matter of substantive policy as secretary of state. you can look through the
. >> absolutely the conventional wisdom from political operatives no one cares about foreign defense policy, it's remote from their lives and people don't vote on those issues any more as they did during the wold car but for hillary clinton, her tenure as secretary of state is the singlemost important qualification she has to be president, so it's not a matter of opposition research here. she's putting her own record as secretary on the line. i think it's a record of failure as i think...
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you see him learn on the job as he goes, particularly on foreign policy. that's also interesting to watch because most presidents, it isn't quite as dramatic as it was with kennedy. start with the bay of pigs and it's kind of a disaster and by the time a year later you get to the cuban missile crisis, he's learned a great deal how the white house needs to be organized. gwen: it's interesting, we think so much of kennedy as a domestic president or very much a hollywood president, a kind of a glamorous president but his foreign policy tests were really key to shaping what he was able to get done or not get done. >> i don't think there's been a presidency in the last 50 years that's been so difficult on foreign policy as kennedy's was. the soviets when they come in office are rising in power. they are arming much faster than the united states because they realize the u.s. is ahead. kennedy, they want to test him and do test him. he meets khrushchev in geneva and doesn't go very well and kennedy is aware he's really not quite ready to take on this test and tak
you see him learn on the job as he goes, particularly on foreign policy. that's also interesting to watch because most presidents, it isn't quite as dramatic as it was with kennedy. start with the bay of pigs and it's kind of a disaster and by the time a year later you get to the cuban missile crisis, he's learned a great deal how the white house needs to be organized. gwen: it's interesting, we think so much of kennedy as a domestic president or very much a hollywood president, a kind of a...
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devoted to economics or foreign policy, iraq and iran, what ever it should be. at cbs we made a deal about never giving you the questions or categories, because you are supposed to keep that distance. >> do you feel any sense of discomfort at having to participate in what you did this time. >> this is the first time i have that this way and this was new, and basically -- janet called me and said, this time we want to divide this up into six categories, and i said, fine. you did not have to say in what order were anything but i think -- you really don't need to in today's sophisticated world. >> but you did. and this hadn't happened before so why was the change. >> with the commission said to me was that they were keen on two things. and the commission is running this. the three of us and candy are not rolling this. >> by your jim lehrer. >> -- you are jim lehrer. >> this is how they ask and here is how the imitation goes to the debate. and if under these rules, would you do this certain fang -- i found out what they propose and made the decision, i would do that
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he effectively lost control of foreign policy at a critical time and the papers this morning show this. here we have the "daily mail" saying with the headline the humbling of cameron. and all the papers pointing out the fact that the mp rejected the syria strikes. it raises strikes for britain and its role in the world is going to be i'm sure a period of national soul searching. also it questions the special relationship with the u.s. mr. cameron stood alongside mr. obama but that's not going to happen. >> thanks so much for that. now we turn to ahmen who is reporting live from the middle east. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's still a very tense situation here despite that uk vote that seems to have taken that momentum on a possible military strike. the lebanese foreign minister warned any attack on syria would destabilize syria and lebanon. there's the growing concern that a strike on syria would widen the conflict. meanwhile the situation here remains tense. the lebanese government has beefed up security across the border and internally as well and there are growing conc
he effectively lost control of foreign policy at a critical time and the papers this morning show this. here we have the "daily mail" saying with the headline the humbling of cameron. and all the papers pointing out the fact that the mp rejected the syria strikes. it raises strikes for britain and its role in the world is going to be i'm sure a period of national soul searching. also it questions the special relationship with the u.s. mr. cameron stood alongside mr. obama but that's...
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foreign policy is not exactly clear here. whether coming from within the white house or coming from the state department. what they've relied on in the past, what any administration has is exceptionally close relationships military to military. once mubarak was in a lot of trouble and he was on his way out, and he was, deploying forces to quell the protesters in tahrir square. it was the military that held back, and they did that because of their tight relationship with the united states. what's difficult here is that you have the military moving forward and clearing, you know, these protesters out. so, this is the difficulty that the administration faces right now. and i think, you know, they're going to have to pursue a more definite strategy here. it's not just the united states. because you have israel as a key player here as well. the israeli military working very well in the egyptian military on issues that have to do with, you know, their border. and a very fragile peace treaty that exists between those two countries.
foreign policy is not exactly clear here. whether coming from within the white house or coming from the state department. what they've relied on in the past, what any administration has is exceptionally close relationships military to military. once mubarak was in a lot of trouble and he was on his way out, and he was, deploying forces to quell the protesters in tahrir square. it was the military that held back, and they did that because of their tight relationship with the united states....
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. >> i would argue that a more restrained foreign policy is the true conservative foreign policy. >> the average american is not thinking about and trying to wonder about where the republican party is. they're thinking about how to make their life work. >> your leader in the house right there, eric cantor, where is this debate headed? >> i think it's a good debate for the republican party to have. when you lose an election, you ought to be a little bit reflective and ought to think back and ought to begin to say, what do we need to do differently? we didn't do badly in the election, but the president won with less than he was elected in '08, lower popular vote, lower electoral vote. we held the house, we have 30 governors. the idea this is some existential crisis is overdone, i think, but we didn't win so what do we need differently. i like what we're hearing and like the direct line that governor jindal took because i think we have -- >> we can't be too -- >> yeah, we nearly were in the fiscal cliff and could have triggered a big tax increase. i don't want to be stupid but you also
. >> i would argue that a more restrained foreign policy is the true conservative foreign policy. >> the average american is not thinking about and trying to wonder about where the republican party is. they're thinking about how to make their life work. >> your leader in the house right there, eric cantor, where is this debate headed? >> i think it's a good debate for the republican party to have. when you lose an election, you ought to be a little bit reflective and...
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. >>> a big shake-up on the white house foreign policy team. ambassador susan rice, the very public face of the benghazi scandal will be promoted as the president's national security advisor. karl rove, former senior advisor, deputy chief of staff in the bush white house, fox news contributor. you spent time in the west wing. that is where she is headed. what do you think of this move today? >> this is defiant gesture by the president saying to the republicans i know you think she lied or misled the country but who cares. i'm doing it. it is, we saw today a statement by the president's people that he was going to get more partisan and that he was going to get more in the face of republicans. this is --. bill: this is the first example of that, do you think? this is the first of a wave or? >> one of the examples of it. look, i can't understand it. she is capable and able person. she went out and lied. misled the country. told people this was the result of a spontaneous reaction to an anti-muslim video that nobody in the region turns out to have
. >>> a big shake-up on the white house foreign policy team. ambassador susan rice, the very public face of the benghazi scandal will be promoted as the president's national security advisor. karl rove, former senior advisor, deputy chief of staff in the bush white house, fox news contributor. you spent time in the west wing. that is where she is headed. what do you think of this move today? >> this is defiant gesture by the president saying to the republicans i know you think...
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if not you are not focused on the foreign policy problems. i don't think it will succeed but i wish him well. >> voting to release 104 palestinian prisoners with other conditions attached for your thoughts? >> it is the calculus of the prime minister netanyahu is better for him to pay the price bantustan and the way of the evidence of termination of the obama is administration to have the talks go forward. ned idea who believes they cannot succeed be he concludes it is better to let them proceed to the inevitable failure than raising the ire of president obama and the reason this make sense is that netanyahu is foccsed on the most important issue of the iran nuclear weapon program i think he is facing a very difficult decision in israel whether to strike and as he approaches that decision he wants to be in a place that if he does decide to strike that i have done everything the you have asked me on that question despite the political cost know iowa you president obama to stand with me against iran. lou: but more massive demonstrations as the
if not you are not focused on the foreign policy problems. i don't think it will succeed but i wish him well. >> voting to release 104 palestinian prisoners with other conditions attached for your thoughts? >> it is the calculus of the prime minister netanyahu is better for him to pay the price bantustan and the way of the evidence of termination of the obama is administration to have the talks go forward. ned idea who believes they cannot succeed be he concludes it is better to let...
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is outsourcing our foreign policy. and a powerful new documentary shedding light on lesser known moments. andy carr in private moments with president bush. we were waiting for fighter jets to protect us. and the whole time the president said we are going tock go back to washington and we can't go back. ♪ [fuzz pile] we sure ve it great here. [curly fry] i know, right. [fuzz pile] movies,music,space as far as the fry can see. [bubble wand] ha.good one. [jelly animal] a great storm comes. we're all doomed. [bubble wand] that guy isn't all there. [fuzz pile] come on,it's a honda,they're built to last... [announcer] we understand life in a minivan. introducing the first minivan with an available built-in vacuum. start something special in the redesigned odyssey from honda. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for her, she's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with her all day to see how it goes. [ claira ] after the deliveries, i was okay. now the ciabatta is done and the pain is st
is outsourcing our foreign policy. and a powerful new documentary shedding light on lesser known moments. andy carr in private moments with president bush. we were waiting for fighter jets to protect us. and the whole time the president said we are going tock go back to washington and we can't go back. ♪ [fuzz pile] we sure ve it great here. [curly fry] i know, right. [fuzz pile] movies,music,space as far as the fry can see. [bubble wand] ha.good one. [jelly animal] a great storm comes. we're...
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mark lynch in foreign policy says the hard truth is that the u.s. has no real influence to lose right now anyway and immediate impact is not the point. pulling the aid is the only way for the u.s. to gain any credibility with cairo, with the region, with its own rhetoric. >> joint exercises are kind of kabuki theater. >> so what? >> isn't that a card you want to save until later? who knows how bad it could get. >> the question is military aid to a military government that's slaughtering people in the hundreds -- >> i just think peter's point about why wasn't -- he was the way he's been on this, it got him in trouble, if only he'd been churchill, maybe it would have helped. it's like, this is why only one guy usually runs for this thing. i mean who the hell knows? so i think foreign policy is sometimes, as we know, an oxymoron. seems retrospective. maybe in fact military aid is the best stick we have and we have a decided natural interest in the balance of power in that region. >> charlie, you just came back from that region. president obama ostateme
mark lynch in foreign policy says the hard truth is that the u.s. has no real influence to lose right now anyway and immediate impact is not the point. pulling the aid is the only way for the u.s. to gain any credibility with cairo, with the region, with its own rhetoric. >> joint exercises are kind of kabuki theater. >> so what? >> isn't that a card you want to save until later? who knows how bad it could get. >> the question is military aid to a military government...
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obama's foreign policy is not working. the mid east is literally in flames, and the biggest prize of all is egypt. if we lose egypt. if egypt becomes a failed fractured state, i cannot imagine what israel's future looks like. >> reporter: ker spoke with elbaradei after he resigned, but he added that kerry made no effort to persuade elbaradei to stay on in his job. lou? >> james, thank you. >>> the obama administration's failure to accurately describe the situation in egypt is somewhat surprising because its was quick to frame the ft. hood massacre as workplace violence after the self described mao shah ha dean major nidal hasan kill 13d of our troops and wounded more than 30 others. it is outrageous that this administration would not describe truth truthfully the reality on the ground around the world and particularly in my judgment at ft. hood. for more on what appears to be a tactical victory by the military in egypt an a war on the secular solution, joining us fox contributor judith miller. also dr. walib ferris. good t
obama's foreign policy is not working. the mid east is literally in flames, and the biggest prize of all is egypt. if we lose egypt. if egypt becomes a failed fractured state, i cannot imagine what israel's future looks like. >> reporter: ker spoke with elbaradei after he resigned, but he added that kerry made no effort to persuade elbaradei to stay on in his job. lou? >> james, thank you. >>> the obama administration's failure to accurately describe the situation in egypt...
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foreign policy towards syria. martha? martha: big, big question. leland, thank you so much. so both sides of course have been accusing each other of using chemical weapons as you just heard leland talking about over the course of the last few months. let's look how we got here. it began in mid-march. syrian state tv and rebel forces blamed each other for a poison attack that reportedly left more than 30 people dead. later an activist network claimed two people died from chemical warfare. internet footage of three people killed on april the 19th showed symptoms of nerve gas. at the end. month witnesses report ad helicopter dropped canisters full of poisonous gas on the town bee hoaxer that one person according to these reports, again the numbers are so difficult to nail down in syria because it is so hard to get in there to verify, that is what the timeline we've seen in the recent months. gregg: fox news alert. this man, major nidal hasan, the fort hood shooter, who killed 13 people and wounded so many others has rested without calling himself to the witness stand and withou
foreign policy towards syria. martha? martha: big, big question. leland, thank you so much. so both sides of course have been accusing each other of using chemical weapons as you just heard leland talking about over the course of the last few months. let's look how we got here. it began in mid-march. syrian state tv and rebel forces blamed each other for a poison attack that reportedly left more than 30 people dead. later an activist network claimed two people died from chemical warfare....
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[laughter] >> madam secretary you spoke wisely of the foreign policy and in syria it is like a toll timescale. [laughter] and i wondered if you thought that the deal how it was reached with chemical weapons was irrelevant which was the civil war or if it is a step to resolving it? >> if this point it can be and should be a step to resolving it prokofiev . on its own has merit fife or at least fully acknowledging to contain the assyria chemical capacity is very important for the ongoing civil war but also of the potential dangers that cayenne be put into the category of a positive outcome of these negotiations. syria is a dilemma at because there had not yet dead a willingness on the part of the russians to really push the assad regime to raid in their own support for the syrian military that opposition to organized the united front that provides negotiators also the fact that russia and the united states and the rest of the world cooperated on the chemical weapons in denver i think is a plus to the the id to the geneva negotiations. i negotiated geneva of wind and it was a road map for a tran
[laughter] >> madam secretary you spoke wisely of the foreign policy and in syria it is like a toll timescale. [laughter] and i wondered if you thought that the deal how it was reached with chemical weapons was irrelevant which was the civil war or if it is a step to resolving it? >> if this point it can be and should be a step to resolving it prokofiev . on its own has merit fife or at least fully acknowledging to contain the assyria chemical capacity is very important for the...
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what does this say about the president's foreign policy? when you look at north korea, when you look at iran, we're going to talk about this coming up. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announcer ] sounds good. it's amazing what soup can do. could lose tens of thousands of dollars on their 401(k) to hidden fees. thankfully e-trade has low cost investments and no hidden fees. but, you know, if you're still bent on blowing this fat stack of cash, there's a couple of ways you could do it. ♪ ♪ or just go to e-trade and save it. boom. ♪ or just go to e-trade and save it. boom. great first gig! let's go! party! awwwww... arigato! we are outta here! party...... finding you the perfect place, every step of the way. hotels.com clusters of pustules, pimples. i had this shingle rash right next to my spine. the
what does this say about the president's foreign policy? when you look at north korea, when you look at iran, we're going to talk about this coming up. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announcer ] sounds good. it's amazing what soup can do. could lose tens of...
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foreign policy. at 9:00, marcia pull oil gives a synopsis of the supreme court under the direction of chief justice john roberts. at 10:00 eastern, olympia snowe joins us to talk about her book fighting for common ground:how we can fix the stalemate in congress. we conclude the prime-time programming at 11:00 eastern with donald rumsfeld providing the lessons he learned over the course of his career. visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. >> representative greg walden, what is on your summer reading list? >> i just finished a victory lap. i do a little bit on the side. that tells a lot about digital data and how the world of campaigns has changed. i am hoping to get to the biography on jefferson which i have on my ipod and a new one on teddy roosevelt. i am a big fan of the roosevelt and the reform music and his energy and styling and deals mainly with his time in south america so it should be interesting. >> let us know what you are reading this summer, tweet us at booktv,
foreign policy. at 9:00, marcia pull oil gives a synopsis of the supreme court under the direction of chief justice john roberts. at 10:00 eastern, olympia snowe joins us to talk about her book fighting for common ground:how we can fix the stalemate in congress. we conclude the prime-time programming at 11:00 eastern with donald rumsfeld providing the lessons he learned over the course of his career. visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. >> representative greg...
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our foreign policy expert will also take on the issue of why mr. obama wants the muslim brotherhood's participation despite the objections of the secular military and other elements of the egyptian governing coalition. this is where things stand tonight in egypt. the interim government came into power after the removal of mohamed morsi, an development the president still refuses to call a coup cracked down ominous limb demonstrators today and in a deadly violent fashion, military police working to move them, virt actually since he was stopped. bulldozers, tanks, helicopters, cops, killing well over 200 civilians. the government reporting that at least 49 police have been killed in attacks by morsi supporters who stormed police stations across cairo. entire neighborhoods falling into battle lines among neighbors on opposite sides of the political con front tangs. egypt's into trim president declaring a month-long state of security. men sar dering the military and police to restore law and order and to protect state facilities. vice president mohamed
our foreign policy expert will also take on the issue of why mr. obama wants the muslim brotherhood's participation despite the objections of the secular military and other elements of the egyptian governing coalition. this is where things stand tonight in egypt. the interim government came into power after the removal of mohamed morsi, an development the president still refuses to call a coup cracked down ominous limb demonstrators today and in a deadly violent fashion, military police working...
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>> this need to be parts of our foreign policy. senator alexander, senator blunt and myself have been concerned about the continued violence against christians. they are basically unprotected. they are viewed to be part of the overthrow, if you will, of morsi, so, you know, they are easy targets. what we are seeing is the security apparatus there is not protecting them. there is not investigations that need to occur. as we move through with our relationship with egypt, we need to make sure protecting minorities and protecting coptic christians, there and in other countries where similar kind of situations are occurring is part of our foreign policy. we know they are moving through right now toward a constitution. they are going to be moving hopefully continually toward a democracy. as that is occurring we want to make sure christian and other minorities are protected. bill: what is your leverage in a case like this? is it the amount of aid we give that government? >> yeah. bill, we as the nation that we are have tremendous learning
>> this need to be parts of our foreign policy. senator alexander, senator blunt and myself have been concerned about the continued violence against christians. they are basically unprotected. they are viewed to be part of the overthrow, if you will, of morsi, so, you know, they are easy targets. what we are seeing is the security apparatus there is not protecting them. there is not investigations that need to occur. as we move through with our relationship with egypt, we need to make...
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policy. >> if inflation goes up, it could raise the social security payment? john: what do you think people are thinking? >> i think people realize that now that people are investing in 401k plans and we don't have that reliance on are heavily run by government entitlement programs. >> it is not a retirement plan, it takes money from young poor people. >> would be mean not? >> and i think that -- you are not getting a payout that is tied to what you put in. >> when i talk to people, some say government is too big. >> then i find it upsetting. >> they don't know. >> i do want to point out a few people. they were quick to maintain this. >> what about the people that need them? >> that is what the state is for. >> anything non-authorized by the constitution. >> i am a poor person, i would find a way to eat. >> i haven't heard people say this until this decade. this is a new concept. >> it's actually really fantastic. one of the great things it doesn't come out of this is that they crowd out priv
policy. >> if inflation goes up, it could raise the social security payment? john: what do you think people are thinking? >> i think people realize that now that people are investing in 401k plans and we don't have that reliance on are heavily run by government entitlement programs. >> it is not a retirement plan, it takes money from young poor people. >> would be mean not? >> and i think that -- you are not getting a payout that is tied to what you put in....
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a back in washington his foreign policy frustrations played out on the talk shows. the say he's too soft on russia and accused nsa leaker snowden. >> mr. snowden's being granted asylum in russia is a signal of incredibly bad relations between the united states and russia. >> reporter: senator john mccain argued that the president underestimated the russian counterpart. >> and i know they like to focus on boat language, he's got the slouch in the back of the classroom. >> the president comparing him to the kid in the back of the classroom, i think it very indicative of his lack of appreciation of who splad mir putin is. >> and a new -- >> finally came out last friday trying to come up with ways to salvage the program by window dressing. >> i applaud the president for bringing us there and talking about how do we educate the public that we need this program. >> all this as snowden's father says he now has the papers to visit his son in russia who he continues to defend. >> what i would say is that my son has spoken the truth. >> reporter: now he also said today that h
a back in washington his foreign policy frustrations played out on the talk shows. the say he's too soft on russia and accused nsa leaker snowden. >> mr. snowden's being granted asylum in russia is a signal of incredibly bad relations between the united states and russia. >> reporter: senator john mccain argued that the president underestimated the russian counterpart. >> and i know they like to focus on boat language, he's got the slouch in the back of the classroom. >>...
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america took a long time to recover from that damage to its prides and to its foreign policy. yet in the intervening decades the grip of the war lords has given way to a constitution and a parliamentary government and its first female foreign minister. a recent guest on this prog
america took a long time to recover from that damage to its prides and to its foreign policy. yet in the intervening decades the grip of the war lords has given way to a constitution and a parliamentary government and its first female foreign minister. a recent guest on this prog
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uh, and now, even my foreign policy is under attack. but there is something i want you all to know. i'm not worried, not in the least.
uh, and now, even my foreign policy is under attack. but there is something i want you all to know. i'm not worried, not in the least.
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martha: yeah. >> is it the foreign policy of his intervention in libya? remember, responsibility to protect? i'm not sure that's term, but that was invoked with regard to libya. now we have similar atrocities being performed, being carried out continually. now augmented by this hideous use of chemical weapons, and you have the president sort of vacillating and finally deciding based on what he'd earlier said, a threat he had made that he's got to do something. it appears he doesn't want it to be very much, and whether it will turn the tide of battle in that war-torn country remains to be seen. martha: brit, thank you very much. we'll see you later. >> you bet. bill: so we're going to talk with a member of the senate who will be at this hearing today. will he vote yes or no? >>> also in a moment, the battle for the debt ceiling. this is battle number two this fall already. if you're looking for help relieving heartburn, caused by acid reflux disease, relief is at hand. for many, nexium provides 24-hour heartburn relief and may be available for just $18 a m
martha: yeah. >> is it the foreign policy of his intervention in libya? remember, responsibility to protect? i'm not sure that's term, but that was invoked with regard to libya. now we have similar atrocities being performed, being carried out continually. now augmented by this hideous use of chemical weapons, and you have the president sort of vacillating and finally deciding based on what he'd earlier said, a threat he had made that he's got to do something. it appears he doesn't want...
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policy but a good friend. >> do you miss her around here? >> i do. she's earned her rest and i know that whatever she does, she's going to be able to continue to be a leader and incredibly positive force for the causes i care about and that she cares about, all around the world. >> the president not able to endorse the vice president. >> who is walking down the hall as you talk to him. >>> let's go to a florida neighborhood that has seen a remarkable turnaround thanks in part to the efforts of one generous man. here's nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: in the theme park capital of the world, hospitality means big business. >> thank you so much. appreciate it. >> reporter: but to harris rosen, it means much more. >> thank you. >> hospitality really is appreciating a fellow human being. >> reporter: he grew up in the slums of new york, a family of immigrants. now he runs seven hotels in orlando, his self-made success would be remarkable on its own but that's not what he's most proud of. >> came to the realization that i really had to now say t
policy but a good friend. >> do you miss her around here? >> i do. she's earned her rest and i know that whatever she does, she's going to be able to continue to be a leader and incredibly positive force for the causes i care about and that she cares about, all around the world. >> the president not able to endorse the vice president. >> who is walking down the hall as you talk to him. >>> let's go to a florida neighborhood that has seen a remarkable turnaround...